Cate Blanchett's Hollywood blockbuster bombs with critics as it races toward box office disaster READ MORE: Cate Blanchett wows in unique metallic top By A. James For Daily Mail Australia Published: 07:03, 12 August 2024 | Updated: 07:03, 12 August 2024 e-mail View comments Australian born Hollywood superstar Cate Blanchett seems to be heading for a box office disaster with her latest film Borderlands. The public appears to be staying away in droves from the big-budget film, which has copped a drubbing from critics.
Based on the video game of the same name, the Eli Roth directed sci fi action comedy cost a reputed $182million (AU) but has only returned a paltry $13.3million (AU) after opening in the U.S.
over the weekend on more than 3,000 screens. And critics have not held back in putting the boot into the film in which 55-year-old Blanchett plays a futuristic 'bounty hunter'. On the aggregator site Metacritic the film has scored a pathetic rating of 27 out of 100, based on 30 reviews from some of America's top critics.
Meanwhile, on Rotten Tomatoes , the film achieved a score of 9 per cent based on a global survey of 99 critics. 'There are still many cinema turkeys headed our way before the year closes,' wrote one critic of the Toronto Star . 'But this sci-fi gobbler mixes inept directing, terrible writing, indifferent acting and gawdawful CGI into such stupefying boredom, it feels like nothing could top it for badness.
' Cate Blanchett is heading for a box disaster with her.